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Firefighters try to extinguish the fire as a firefighting helicopter drops water in Koropi suburb, eastern part of Athens, on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Scores of Greek firefighters and water-bombing aircraft were trying to contain a large wildfire on the fringes of Athens that forced authorities to issue evacuation orders Wednesday for two nearby settlements. (AP Photos/Petros Giannakouris)

A wildfire on the fringes of the Greek capital triggers evacuation alerts

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Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, welcomes the Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before their meeting at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. Old foes Turkey and Greece will test a five-month-old friendship initiative on Monday, May 13, 2024 when Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visits Ankara. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Wary of wars in Gaza and Ukraine, old foes Turkey and Greece test a friendship initiative

By Suzan Fraser and Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

FILE - Nikos Michaloliakos, the leader of the extreme far-right Golden Dawn political party speaks during a pre-election rally, in Athens, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015. The head of Greece's extreme far-right Golden Dawn party was granted conditional early release Thursday, May 2, 2024, from prison, after serving part of his sentence for running a criminal organization blamed for numerous violent hate crimes. A council of judges accepted the request by Michaloliakos, 66, who had served the minimal legal requirement for conditional release, which also took into consideration his age. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Head of Greek extreme far-right Golden Dawn party is granted early release from prison

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Firefighters of the 1st Wildfire Special Operation Unit, take part in a drill near Villia village some 60 kilometers (37 miles) northwest of Athens, Greece, Friday, April 19, 2024. Greece's fire season officially starts on May 1 but dozens of fires have already been put out over the past month after temperatures began hitting 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) in late March. This year, Greece is doubling the number of firefighters in specialized units to some 1,300, adopting tactics from the United States to try and outflank fires with airborne units scrambled to build breaks in the predicted path of the flames. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece boosts special firefighting units to cope with its growing heat risk

By Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

Performers, who will take part in the flame-lighting ceremony for the Paris Olympics, enter the Olympic Velodrome ahead of a practice in Athens, Greece, Saturday, March 30, 2024. Every two years, a countdown to the Olympic games is launched from its ancient birthplace with a flame-lighting ceremony in southern Greece at Ancient Olympia. The event is marked with a performance by dancers who assume the role of priestesses and male companions, their movement inspired by scenes from millennia-old artwork. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

At birthplace of Olympics, performers at flame-lighting ceremony feel a pull of the ancient past

By Theodora Tongas and Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

Greek Fighter Jets F-16, fly over Tanagra air force base about 74 kilometres (46 miles) north of Athens, Greece on Sept. 12, 2022. Greek authorities say on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, an F-16 fighter jet crashed in the Aegean Sea during a training flight. The pilot ejected from the aircraft and was later rescued. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

A Greek F-16 crashes during a training mission, but the pilot is rescued

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Greek author Petros Hadjopoulos, who uses the pen name Auguste Corteau, hugs his husband, lawyer Anastasios Samouilidis, before their wedding at Athens City Hall, Greece, on Thursday, March 7, 2024. A Greek novelist and his partner on Thursday became the first male couple to be married in Athens' city hall following the legalization of same-sex marriage in Orthodox Christian Greece. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

In rights landmark, Greek novelist and lawyer are the first same-sex couple wed at Athens city hall

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This undated image provided by Augusta University shows Laken Hope Riley, a nursing student whose body was found Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, Ga., after not returning from a run. (Augusta University via AP, File)

Biden’s immigration crisis comes to Georgia

By Chad Wolf and Doug Collins

A crowd of people gather to mourn the loss of Laken Riley during a vigil for the Augusta University College of Nursing student at the Tate Plaza on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, Ga., Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. Riley, a nursing student at Augusta University's Athens campus, was found dead Thursday, Feb. 22, after a roommate reported she didn't return from a morning run in a wooded area of the UGA campus near its intramural fields. Students also gathered to pay tribute to a UGA student who committed suicide last week. (Joshua L. Jones/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)

The killing of a Georgia nursing student is now at the center of the U.S. immigration debate

By Jeff Amy and Elliot Spagat and Will Weissert - Associated Press

This undated image provided by Augusta University shows Laken Hope Riley. Police said Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, that they are questioning a “person of interest” in the death of Riley, a nursing student whose body was found on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, Ga., after not returning from a run. (Augusta University via AP)

Police questioning ‘person of interest’ in death of Georgia nursing student

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Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis speaks during a debate in Parliament on same-sex marriage in Athens, Greece, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Mitsotakis' center-right government is poised to make Greece the first Orthodox Christian-majority country to approve marriage equality legislation. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

Greek Parliament to vote on legalizing same-sex marriage in first for an Orthodox Christian country

By Nicholas Paphitis - Associated Press

Riot police detain dozens of fans outside the Melina Merkouri indoor stadium, in western Athens, early Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. A Greek policeman has been severely injured as a mob of volleyball fans poured out of an Athens arena and attacked riot police. A flare shot by a fan severed an artery in the thigh of the 30-year-old officer Thursday night. (Yorgos Matthaios/Eurokinissi Sports via AP)

In latest crackdown on violence, Greece bans fans at all top-flight matches for two months

By Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

A bedbug is displayed at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, March 30, 2011. Greece’s health ministry is seeking police help against hoaxers who tried to scare foreign tourists out of several Athens short-term rental flats by inventing a bedbug crisis. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

A bedbug hoax is targeting foreign visitors in Athens. Now the Greek police have been called in

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The ancient Greek vase from 420 BC – the Meidias Hydria – on loan from the British Museum, is on display during a media tour ahead of the Greece's Acropolis Museum officially launched of the exhibition, 'Meanings' Personifications and Allegories From Antiquity to Today, in Athens, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. The loan coincides with a spat between the two countries over Greek demands for the return of sculptures from the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis that are housed in the British Museum. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

British Museum loan to Greece coincides with dispute over demand to return Parthenon Marbles

By Thanassis Stavrakis and Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, on Wednesday Nov. 29, 2023. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

U.K. Prime Minister Sunak ramps up criticism of Greek prime minister in Parthenon Marbles spat

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press